Automatizing Sight Reading: Contingency Proportion and Task Relevance in the Music Contingency Learning Procedure

Author:

Schmidt James R.12ORCID,Iorio Claudia12ORCID,Poulin-Charronnat Bénédicte12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. LEAD – CNRS UMR5022 1 ,

2. Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France 1 ,

Abstract

Learning to read and play music written in standard notation, termed sight reading, is an important yet difficult aspect of early music education. However, the music contingency learning procedure produces rapid and robust early learning of the motor execution associated with note positions. In this task, nonmusicians identify a note name (e.g., “do”) written inside a note in one of the vertical positions of the musical staff with a keyboard response. Each note position is presented frequently with the matching (congruent) note name and rarely with the incongruent note names. The present work further explores this novel learning paradigm. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the proportion of congruent trials from 50 to 100%. The contingency effect, along with contingency awareness (i.e., verbalizable knowledge of note meanings), increased with a stronger contingency manipulation. In Experiment 2, half of the participants responded to the note positions (instead of the note names) with a keyboard response. A learning effect was also observed for this task, though contingency awareness was reduced in this group. These results shed more light on the properties of incidental music learning and further suggest more ideal parameters for future practical applications to supplement traditional instruction in real-world music education.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

General Psychology

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